Images of Athens: The Agora and Museum

 

 

Fragments of Law-Court Materials. Athens Agora

 

Fragment of a Voting Machine, used to Randomize the

Selection of Jurors. Athens Agora

 

Voting Ballots, ca. 300 BC. Athens Agora

Klepsudra, or Water Clock.

Used to Time Speeches in the Athenian Law-courts.  Athens Agora

 

Ostraka: Voting for the Exile of Threatening Men.

In this case, Themistokles, who had saved the Greeks from the Persians at the Naval Battle of Salamis,

was run out of town. Hundreds were found in a well, and indicate rigged voting. Athens Agora

 

Fragment of a Monument Base, to Commemorate the Victory

over the Persians, 490 BC.  Athens Agora

 

 

Standard Weights.  Athens Agora

 

Spartan Shield, Athens Agora
 
 

Perfume Bottle in the Shape of Kneeling Athlete, ca. 540 BC. Athens Agora

 

Votive Relief to Pan and Two Nymphs

ca. 330 BC. Athens Agora

 

    

 

Late Geometric Pottery, 8th century BC.  Athens Agora

 
 

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